From Captivity to Inner Dawn

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your mind, the city represents your settled patterns and identities; the captors are the prevailing movements of awareness that dislodge them. A stronger power comes and seizes the priests, the scribes, and the guards—the old forms by which you once organized your life. This is not punishment but a necessary clearing of a former arrangement so the I AM, your true self, can awaken to a higher land within. The exile you sense is a relocation of consciousness: you are asked to leave the old city and walk in the spacious inner land of awareness where the old forms cannot sustain themselves. The king of Babylon stands for the present power of consciousness that invites new possibilities; when these forms are led to Riblah, the old self-structures are laid to rest and rearranged in harmony with your real nature. Remember: you do not lose your essence; you relinquish attachment to a particular structure. The inner monarch—the I AM you are—remains intact, and the exodus reveals your eternal home, felt through disciplined imagination.